ssa_progress Command
Purpose Toshow how much (by percentage) of a format operation has been completed, and to
show the status of the format operation. The status can be “Complete”,“Formatting”,or
“Failed”.
Syntax
ssa_progress -l pdisk
Description The ssa_progress command opens the pdisk special file, and uses the ISAL Progress
command to determine the percentage of the formatting operation that is complete.
The ssa_progress -l pdisk command allows you to check the progress of the format
operation that the ssa_format -l pdisk command started.
Flags
-l Pdisk Specifies the pdisk of whose format operation you want to check progress and
status.
Output The ssa_progress command sends error messages to stderr,and progress messages
to stdout.
Examples
vIf the disk has been 30% formatted, the following messages are displayed:
> ssa_progress -l pdisk
Formatting 30
vIf the disk is not formatting, and is not format degraded, the following messages are
displayed:
> ssa_progress -l pdisk
Complete 100
vIf the disk is format degraded, the following messages are displayed:
> ssa_progress -l pdisk
Failed 0
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